The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not
those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary
men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most
devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million
lives were lost.
Focusing on the citizens of four towns—Luverne, Minnesota;
Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama—The
War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely
from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds
month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the
iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the
concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and
Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren,
and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men
were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa.
Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many
never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting
chronicle of the war that shaped our world.
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